How Can I Get Useful Feedback to Improve My Online Teaching?

Feedback for Faculty

“Feedback is the breakfast of champions,” according to Ken Blanchard, best-selling author of The One Minute Manager.

That includes students and faculty members.

As an educator, you know feedback is important for learning of all kinds. Find out ways in which evaluation can help you learn how to be a better educator in How Can I Get Useful Feedback to Improve My Online Teaching?

Benefits

Faculty members need feedback in order to see where and how they can improve their online teaching. But this presentation won’t just help you gather that information—it will help you make sense of what you learn and take action accordingly.

In this fast and focused presentation, you’ll learn how evaluation can help you:

Improve your students’ educational experience

Identify your own professional development needs

Prepare for formal performance reviews, including promotion and tenure committees

Learning Goals

Drawing on well-established principles of effective teaching and more than 20 years of experience in distance education, the presenter presents proven techniques for gathering feedback and improving your online teaching practices.

Topics Covered

Good teaching is good teaching, whether you’re working in a classroom setting or distance education.

But, the presenter asserts, what changes with online teaching are some of the techniques we use to evaluate that teaching and the evidence we look for.

Consider the simple “suggestion box”—it’s not just for bricks-and-mortar stores or services anymore. Try setting up an online suggestion box for your course, specific activities, or selected content, and get ready to be surprised at the useful feedback you receive.

This presentation is chock-full of simple, proven, and practical ideas you can use to improve your online teaching. You’ll learn:

Four ways to gather informal student feedback

Four ways to solicit informal peer review

Three ways to approach self-evaluation

Takeaways

After you learn how to gather information through self-evaluation, peer review, and student feedback, the supplemental materials included with this session will help you make changes and access the support you need. You’ll receive:

Sample documents

Checklists

Dos and don’ts

Links to additional resources

Audience

Whether you’re an old hand at distance education or this is your first experience with online teaching, How Can I Get Useful Feedback to Improve My Online Teaching? will help you gather the information you need to be a better online instructor. The presentation is valuable for instructors teaching at any institution offering distance education.

It can also accommodate even the busiest schedule.

This presentation is suitable for faculty at all levels of experience with online teaching.

Purchase

Do you want to be a champion educator? Give yourself the boost you need, and purchase How Can I Get Useful Feedback to Improve My Online Teaching? today!

Product Code: QM15GA

Your Presenter

Ann Taylor, PhD
Director and Assistant Dean, Penn State University

Ann Taylor, PhD has worked in the field of distance education since 1991, focusing on learning design and faculty development. As the assistant dean for Distance Learning and director of the John A. Dutton e-Education Institute at Penn State University, Taylor is... Read More